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He has reinvented portraiture through the medium of paint, but also abstracted it.
"In this spectacular detail, the medium of paint is exploited to its highest potential.
The fluid medium of paint, with its literal and figurative depth, with its capacity for atmospherics, is something else.
Sometimes we see the world extruded and distorted, not through Bacon's eye, or through the medium of paint, but through the distorting lens of a glass of booze.
But by translating his digitally sourced collages into the slow and manual medium of paint, he seems to be doing something far more interesting than quirky montage.
He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint".
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Why hasn't there been a major New York show of Philip Taaffe, whose layered, richly colored paintings are actually taking the medium of painting in a direction it hasn't been before?
There is also an overlap between Crewdson's photography and the medium of painting.
And often he is doing it in the medium of painting, collapsing trash onto treasure.
And why, a few art-worldlings fretted, did the Obamas stick with the stodgy old medium of painting?
He introduces the elements of time and narrative -- abstract narrative -- into the medium of painting, sacrificing the aura of the one-of-a-kind handmade object.
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